OK, probably not allowed to state the domain but I was actually shocked to find a webmaster forum with AdSense revenue sharing.

I suppose it's legal with the Google AdSense terms, but it seems real dangerous to me. With their terms of "50%" AdSense rotation for the thread starter it would seem pretty easy to figure out who's AdSense was on the page 50% of the time..

What if someone you've had a lot of disagreements with on the forum just didn't like you and wanted revenge? I could see your AdSense acccount getting a LOT of invalid clicks and people getting banned from AdSense theoretically.

Has anyone actually participated in such "revenue share" schemes?

Maybe I'm stingy, but I personally like to keep all the Adsense earnings to myself--I don't like to share with anyone. :D

Those types of schemes always end up getting nailed by the Adsense team somehow or another. It's just a matter of time.

This particular site happens to be a fairly big site and I'm sure Google knows all about them, it would be hard not to know them.

I just never realized they had an AdSense ponzi scheme for forum posts until today, never looked that hard.

Yes, AdSense is aware of them, AdSenseAdvisor is even there ;)

As long as two user IDs are not on the same page, it is fine. I have seen some AdSense in rotation where the publisher whose code was showing was clearly suspended from AdSense. So that didn't seem to infect any of the other publisher accounts.

Would I do this? Nope, lol. There is a definite risk involved that I wouldn't care to take. But it does work for some forums.

Patrick slaps himself on the forhead, opens another window and pulls his adsense id code form the forum in question.

duuu ...

must have been a morning without coffee.

Jen - it's been my understanding that I can post my own adsense code within my own content that is located on *other sites*. An example are pages at the IAN (hotels.com) network. Have you ever heard of problems associated with doing that?

I reported three of such forums to Google but they are still in the SERPs

I reported three of such forums to Google but they are still in the SERPs

Apparently there's nothing wrong with such forums as long as they don't use more than ONE AdSense account per page view.

As long as two user IDs are not on the same page, it is fine.

Hi Jenstar,
As you said, I think that's what everyone thinks. But I have to tell you that this is not true for everyone. I asked Google directly about displaying multiple user IDs on a same page, because I have websites that are rotating 5 different adsense users. 3 units, all different publishers. I got approval from Google.

Here is the actual response from Google.

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Hello Bo,

So long as the owner of the other account(s) has given you permission to
display their ads on your site, you may place your ad code along with the
other publisher's ad code on the same page. Obviously in this situation
you have permission, so it will be ok.

Please be aware that every publisher is responsible for the content of a
website on which their ad code is placed. If a website is found in
violation of our program policies, we will notify all of the publishers
whose ad code is on the website, and ask you to remove the Google code
from that page.